It’s All Over – It’s Alan Pardew

We more or less said it that last night, but it’s now Alan Pardew who will definitely become Newcastle manager, and he will be get a results-based contract.

Alan Pardew – results based contract And bookmakers this morning have labelled the move as “a done deal” in other words it’s all over.

William Hill have Pardew at 2/25 to succeed Chris Hughton, with former favorite Martin Jol, having walked away from a results based contract, even though he officially said he wants to take a break from the game.

William Hill’s Relations Director Graham Sharpe posted this on Twitter this morning to the media:

“Alan Pardew for Newcastle looks a done deal – Hills now 1/12 the ex-Saint gets the gig, with Jol out to 9/1; (Martin) O’Neill/ (Ray) Wilkins both 10/1,”

It seems that Ashley is looking for somebody who is better than Hughton in the transfer market, as one reason he wants a new manager. Other than that, heaven knows what he’s looking for, but there would be few top managers who would take a results-based contract.

Apparently the good players who were brought in during the summer, were all brought in by Chief Scout Graham Carr, who seems to be doing a very good job for the club in what is a very strategic job.

The top two of Hatem Ben Arfa and Cheick Tiote were essentially brought to the club by Graham Carr, and not Hughton, and they could become top acquisitions for the club.

Whether the club can now sign Ben Arfa with Chris having left the club, is a very good question, as we know the Frenchman really liked Chris.

Fans will be more than unhappy that Alan Pardew, who doesn’t have any stellar record in football management, is the man they’ve brought in – he’ll make Graeme Souness look like a wonderful management signing when we got Graeme in September of 2004.

Graeme followed Sir Bobby Robson, and the fans just never took to him, and he lasted around 16 months.

Alan Pardew will be the 13th Newcastle manager in 13 years, and since we started this blog in April 2007, we have seen Glenn Roeder, Sam Allardyce, Kevin Keegan, Joe Kinnear, Alan Shearer and Chris Hughton manage the club – and now it seems Alan Pardew.

That averages out as one manager every six months in Ashley’s reign so far.

That’s hardly stability, which is what Mike Ashley said that was what the club needed when he came in during the summer of 2007.

I wouldnt trust the gambling industry to base any presumptions on. They exist to make money from people who guess wrong about something that is going to happen – so why would they tell us the truth? Their information has massive political motive behind it. People really should not act as if they are a reliable journalistic source, because they are not.

It’s not official until it’s on the OFFICIAL website, which it isn’t & as Slaberger said, if the bookies were so sure about this like they were with Hoots going, they’d have stopped the betting, so it’s complete bo!!ocks imo!!!

suppose ashley doesn’t have a wife so nothing to fear from pardew .. you think ashley wants the run newcastle into the ground based on this .. the man is mental.. I hope it works but a big gamble on somebody I would say is comparable to hughton .. on big difference though .. the fans and the team are behind hughton … DISGRACE

after 49 years, I didn’t think it could get any worse. how wrong could I be ! Yes ed is as usual jumping the gun, but to all intents and purposes it looks for all the world as if it’s Pardew and that being the case, after 49 years I’ve had enough. I didn’t think anyone could harm the is club any more than Freddie Shepherd, but Ashley is world class at it.

The bookies have had it wrong before….Didier Deschamps was nailed on and then suddenly Keegan was unveiled..remember this is talk sports unreliable gossip mongerer The Moose telling us that Pardew is on his way up to the toon..i know i’m clutching at straws.

I think one word sums up our situation and how I feel about Pardew. “BOLLOCKS”. I live near Reading and have a lot of friends who support Reading they all to a man hate Pardew. He is an arrogant p*ss poor manager. He’s done nowt anywhere he’s been a losing FA cup final with West Ham & a Paint Trophy with Southampton. Dark Days indeed are ahead for the toon. For the 1st time in 55 years I hope we get relegated I really feel sorry for the fans who go every week but at least they are all together. I will now get the P*SS taken out of me something rotten by the Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea & other fans down here.

Right I am going to bed for my next horrible nightshift and when I wake up this all better of changed and anyone but Pardew is in charge of my club, otherwise I am off to St James for the last time for a long time on Saturday at 5.30pm

What I can’t understand is how Pardew is a better manager than Hoots, I mean, he just got sacked from Southampton right? How can he be not good enough for them, yet good enough for newcastle.

If ashley wanted a cut price manager why didnt he stick with Hoots, he was on less than minimum bloody wage and still didnt complain.

I’ll never stop supporting Newcastle because its my club, but I won’t be spending any money on the club until the cockney mafia are gone. They’ve done nothing but systematically destroyed the club since they took over.

what a fu**ing joke i will never enter sjp again after this i will go sat and vent my anger then throw my season ticket on the pitch a disgrace what a laughing stock we are im so pissed off its unbelievable

Pardew will now bring in all of his cronies including a new goalkeeping coach same as he did at Southampton. The Saints management fired them all at the same time. Ashley Lamearse Pardew jobs for the boys>

whoever it is, we all should just remind ourselves how pi55ed off we all were when Hughton took charge.

Whinging on about Pardew or who TF it’s gona be ain’t gona help anyone. MA has proven to be a cloth-eared buffoon when it comes to listening to fans, and he’s unlikely to change his spots anytime soon. Forget about Pardew and focus on the 11 lads on the pitch.

I mean, come on, who else were we gona get?! Hughton obviously fell out with Ashley over ‘something’. That’s now water under the bridge for me. It does however smack of KK’s boardroom fallout.

Yes, everyone, including the team grew to like and respect Hughton. Whoever takes over this time should be given a chance.

Yes Ashley is a c0ck. But lets just look forward to finishing the league in the top half eh.

I’ll start moaning again when Ashley sells Carroll in January, and gives Pardew FA to spend.

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I was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in February 2017 and completed four months of chemotherapy in late July and will continue to have hormone treatment.

After having various cat scans and a full bone scan recently, I met with the medical oncologist yesterday for a review of my condition.

The cancer in the bones has stabilized and has not spread further, and my PSA count has decreased significantly to being less than 0.1.

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Hopefully, the hormone treatment will keep working for a while yet and then we will switch to some other treatments that have been developed over the last few years.

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